Institute of Psychiatric Research (IPR)

Welcome

The Institute of Psychiatric Research (IPR) is an integral part of the Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine. IPR is home to research faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellow, and graduate and professional students. IPR has been extending the boundaries of psychiatric research by:

demonstrating that glycine is a neurotransmitter

developing the serotonin hypothesis of depression

helping to establish the genetic and the biochemical substrates of alcoholism